Team
Members
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Antonia Baumann
(she/her)
Role: predoctoral researcher
Research interests: sociological and socio-cognitive aspects of translation/interpreting, workplace research, accessibility
Currently working on: feedback in the translation industry, translation expertise
Also working as: freelance speech-to-text interpreter
Outside academia: rock climbing, hiking, yoga, aerial silks
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Manuel Franco
(he/him)
Role: student assistant
Currently studying: conference interpreting, Romance philology
Passionate about: languages, literature, everything pop culture, writing poetry
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Hanna Risku
(she/her)
Role: professor, head of research group; member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
Has also worked as: Vice Rector (Krems), Head of Centre/Institute (Vienna, Graz, Krems), freelance translator
Research interests: translation and situated cognition, translation workplace and network research, translation expertise
Enjoys: bike rallies and Swedish detective stories
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Regina Rogl
(she/her)
Role: postdoctoral researcher
Research interests: socio-technical conceptualisations of translation, digital translation practices, field research
Currently working on: the role of translation in online disinformation ecologies
Has also worked as: public service interpreter
Off the clock endeavors: gravel bike adventures, painting, dabbling in graphic design
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Daniela Schlager
(she/her)
Role: organisational assistant, predoctoral researcher
Research interests: sociological, socio-cognitive, political, and historical aspects of translators and translation
Currently working on: translation expertise, translators' personal goals and agency
Passionate about: heavy and psychedelic rock music, good conversations, changing hyperfixations
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Former team members
- Elisa Permanschlager, student assistant and organisational assistant (2021–2025)
- Kerstin Pasterk, student assistant and student researcher (2022–2025)
- Anna Sourdille, organisational assistant and predoctoral researcher (2022–2024)
- Daria Schnut-Hainz, predoctoral researcher (2022)
- Jelena Milošević, predoctoral researcher (2017–2022)